So its been a productive last couple of weeks here at the farm, for me, mixed between working in the office (transferring film) and working around the property. Several projects were started and some even finished!!! Anyway. We are loving being here in the woods. Plants are growing. water is flowing and the sun is shining. Here are a few of the projects that we have been working on this spring. Continue reading →

So I spent a few hours with the excavator working on an idea to give us gravity fed water to our gardens by way of damming up a small runnoff creek that comes in at the highest point on our property, creating a pond and using that to feed a line that will run all the way to our gardens. After I finished the initial dig (I still have to bring in more material and expand the berm and enlarge the pond) I built our first hugelkulture bed near the driveway on the first small plateau as you drive in, using a lot of the waste that was left by the loggers years earlier. here is a short video showing some of the results. Thanks for reading and watching!

Permaculture – a whole system approach to design and implementation of systems to live with/by/on. This means gardens, food forests, water, energy, shelter, etc… By this method we are shaping our property and our lives. Its wonderful. But practitioners of permaculture principles are by their nature, “preppers”… not “the sky is falling, terrorists are gonna take over types”… but people that would rather be prepared for an uncertain future and never have anything come to pass than be unprepared and have the world around us (as a result of natural disasters or enviromental changes or for economical or political reasons) collapse.Continue reading →